SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 21 July 1922, Page 3

SPORTING.

Thu annual report of the Egmont j Placing Club states: “It is with regret we have lu record a loss of £2731 6s 3d. This is attributed to the general depression and financial stringency that has ruled the country during tile period. There has been an abnormal decrease in all sources of revenue, particularly the tutalk-alor. in view of the many adverse factors that had to be faced, youi committee consider the results achieved satisfactory.’’ As there "as it profit of about £3OOO on the Wellington race meeting the unemployed fund will benefit to the extent of about £IOOO. It tho Government: had forgone a third of its taxes on the meeting in favour of the fund the fund would have received about , £-10UU. Big dividends were the order of the day at Treutham on Wednesday of last week, which, of course, meant that the ! harvest was confined to a comparatively -mall proportion of the speculators.! Buturaing in the train to the city was | an enthusiast who, to use his own ex- j pression. had been “stiff.” He sat in j tho corner of a carriage busily applying pencil to paper. Asked by a friend if he was taking stock of his day's winning's, the man replied: “W tunings . Ho. 1 was just reckoning up how much a bloke would have won if he had put it all up on the winners.'’ “Well, what's tho result!” queried the friend. - “Oh. about £22,000,000,” was the response.-. Ho doubt the impracticability of the “all up’’ scheme later dawned on the mathematician. Evidently Hector Gray’s methods do not find favour with the English racing authorities. At the last Epsom meeting the Hew Zealander was before the stewards and received a reprimand lor not keeping a straight course, lu addition to this he was cautioned as to his future riding. “Carbine” says it was rumoured at the Wellington meeting that there is to be a change in the judgeship ol the Wellington Club, and that the new holder of the office is to be one who is a relative of a w-cil-finown Wellington sport*is.au. A sixteen-year-old boy who was charged at Bow Street with street betting. informed Hr Chester .Tones, the j Magistrate, that he only began the business as a “side-line” to hn> ordinary i work of butcher ’s boy. lie handed in a small pocket-book showing his gains' and losses. After studying the book j for some time the Magistrate observed: “You seem to have begun with a capital of £7 7s. Won £1 10s 10d Oil Monday. lost £3 6s on Tuesday, lost £1 7s lOd on Wednesday. I should give it up if I were you. It seems to be quite an awajeur sort of business, so I ..han't fine you £lO as i would an ordinary bookmaker. Hay 10s.” Allegations that he was an inveterate gambler were brought against a defendant in a judgment summons case at the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch recently, and it seemed they were well founded when he admitted to eounsel for the prosecution that he had a collection of to!alisator tickets "hick represented a value of £lls+ It was pleaded, however, that defendant had made a hobby of collecting them. “They took a long time to collect.” he said. you don’r. ? *’ interrupted lii? wife, “they are one year’s tie* kefs. ” The Magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, said he thought they showed where defendant’s money went to. He would be ordered to pay money owing, in dafault 30 days’ imprisonment.